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year which were ordained by the British Government. Of the other foreign goods imported, attention, will he attracted by the curious falling off in the quantity of four brought into the Southern Fro sine* To go back a little in order that readers day appreciate the full extent of the drop, the flour importa la 1906 totalled the very respectable amount of 99,997 picula during the quarter stated. is goy, the quantity landed at Canton fose to 117,661, but in 1908 it fell lightly to 109,420. Last year, however, the total amount recorded by the Customs as having entered Canton only came to 38,447 piculs, about a quarter of the figures: noted in 19 7. With regard to kerosine oil there is not much change shown in the totals, although it may be noted that fumatra oll In bulk is steadily finding favour with purchasers. It may interest a few people to learn that the

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JANUARY 21 1910

will be da

neigh

work when

REVELATIONS.

SHANGHAI shocked,

He rushed to the middle of the road and want position. Thinking he was the victim of an surprised to see the post resuming its normal

happened untilhe heard of the quake. Another- optical delusion be said nothing of what had sergant bad a similar expenszen, for when leaving a certain park he was thunderstruck at cooling the two gate photbitrying to close distance when he looked round and was in on him. He lost no time to getting to a safe surprised to see the posts in their usu had occurred he decided to say nothing position. Not understanding at the time what

but later on when we rozlisad what had happened he made a clean, breast of kin axparience Now why did both theon – kary geants wish to keep this exciting experience to themselves? Perhaps they had paver board, of the sarthquake of 1847 and so had no data to go

No by. We must stop hare, but what thrilling night it must have bata in Shanghai, on Saturday, the 8th inst., at 10.53, p.m. Au whurs

a tople for a Sunday morning's convergy loo, There is only, one omission to which people were there in Shanghai that Saturday we should ilk to call attention-How many night who never falt the shock at all, and-hadi no idea that there" had been an"" earthquakes carcering around until they were told all åbost, it next morning?

'SWINDLERS AND SMUGGLERS, (20th Jungery)

food been so, low as it was last year. Where elementary education of the masses should i donned a hood of variegated huss 7. It is differ- can diva to the root of the trouble without the douce falke were' in for a disaster which | Thase men-ape of the accused was. “

JAW

to

-B woman

It is significant sign of the time that so lower than five cases, in which eleven persone taffait coins were heard at the Hongkong Cri were implicated, of selling and uttering coun-

evidence tendered was so conclusive of the minal Sessions on Tuesday. In each case the prisoners guilt that the jury had no hesitation in returning a verdict to that effect and for the next few years these defrauders of the poor will have an opportunity of rastising the truth of the saying that the path of the transgressor is hard. Whether they will be induced to re pant of the evil of their ways is another ques«"" tion. What strikes us about tress cases is that in a single lestance were the police in a position to allege the infinitely morn serious crime of coining against the prisonar.

simply retailers of the spurioss coins and but she was discharged from the countere apparently had nothing whatever to do, with the master hand whose skill was at the root of the felony. While it is true that. if there was none to undertake the pissing into circolation of the base money there would be, in all likelihood, less inclination on the part of the coiner to exercise his perverted gaplar, on the principle that the resetter in as bad, as the thief, that is no argument for mistaken lapisacy in the punishment of those caught in the act of disposing of the fraudulent tokens and we rejoice that in both Courts which sat to hear, these cases the judges in ficted sentences which are calculated tá tormediaries, But do the police authorities intend to stop there, or are they purine their investigations still farther till they rus to of the counterfeit money? Is one of the cases, earth the gang responsible for the production wo police, the baol was made through the Information supplied by a third party, who was commissioned by the police to purchsas the false coins from the distributing centre. If that informant was 10 well posted regarding the": manner of circulating the coins and, kouw 10 a alcely how to proceed about the business of acquiring pussession of the counterfait dollars, one should fincy he was equally? well

† statement of tact, rendered all the more importellation and all the rest of it reminded them hava a desirent effect on the. kuavishin

manufacture of fana. No less than 1.777, to eke out their. knowledge of educational depositors made a run on the bink. hen. They take it for granted that the Sanitary

vious year.

Yet this

courag

Inclined to fancy that the well-paid official were ju thuir"; natura wider, subeler, more bean lost Sooner or later he will overtak" | inhabited Area, by diverting it into serie wiin't them. We think the next sergeant cannot conceive the existence of what may complex than a whith which is predecessors the start gained by his contemporary, who has other direction. Secondly, to train the bad experience is sich. The officer was watchin's be termed respectable poverty in Hongkong. had had to deal and he went on to say that gone straight from school to the Cfice desk, of the nullah, so as to remove the irregularities. a suspicious character from behind a lamp We do not mean the shabby genteel poverty these new conditions would have to be met by and, la the sad, bo will gaia amormonale was

NEW method. He continued

which now offer nurseries for which snobbishly puts on its back, what insular betted will not contain thejnew wind if his to tackle prac

"The old in the higher branches of bla profession ho And be added in his concluding rama, aitoaa," | when he felt the post moving away kom him,

"Re. should go into its stomach, but the hard-work interoational trades 1 cobless for my part, of principled acquired in the school. If all ply. A spark of mischief kindled at its source practical problem in the fight member that a water supply in a general sup ing and poorly-paid section of the community have no patience with those laudators of times bank clerks wars to become bank managers may set up such a conflagration of trouble in which, being voiceless and therefore subaer-sast, of the so-called practical system of mario great metropolitan centres the remarks of the path of its distributing that it may be vient, accepts the most meagre pittance with cantile education, which consists in snatching Mr. Addis: might be worth moment's difficult to extingalah it. In the Army, the first thankfulness, and lives in the glorious hope of from school at a tender age, and plung consideration. And if all future bank managers thing we do when we get into camp, is to place making ends meer. It is the latter class which is doing the most impressionabis years were to be drawn from the ranks of the wealthy sentry over par water supply, to prevent say is generally most anxious that the children asical routine of an office Cas you imagine education might be demonstrable. But a body with the pratent guard over the Mount Austin of his life-between it and zo-in the ate and influential the advantages of a university one from contaminating it. Are you satisfied should receive the advantages of at least anything more deadening to the mlad and can drive brains jote a numikull and the real source of primary education in order that they may spirit of a future captain of industry? may financier will still be the man to told the relqs am not Neither, we venture to think, is

supply? frankly own that rise above the lasmatic swamps to which these old rule-of-thumb methods will no longer of office bather be is handicapped by a un anybody size now that the plain facts have their parents have been condemned, and suce, Man will be compelled to recognise iversity education or propelled by bit native been revealed. The question of deciding what

talent and ambition to achieve success. it is that class which scrapes and saves that commerce is becoming, haa bécem“, a and denies itself the meanest luxuries that who bas mastered, its lap, broader onlook

science in which none can®

Phall be done to prevent contamination has bees referred to a committen. Meanwhile the the children may be fitted for the battle of on med and affairs, & more intimate knowledge

public will maintains crim yong until the life. Under a beneficent Government, the of the relation of things, a sew mental equip

committee rohmits it apart but we shall self-sacrifice of those parents who send their ment, all, in fact, that we'

expect that report to be laid on the table of (19th January,) trade in birds' nests is still going strong, no 1offspring to the district schools would be' doverbo‘a man as well-educatod han wa

Those who have read the semi-official ac-"

the Saoltary Board at the earliest possible. lear than 5,704 catties being disposed of appreciated and rewarded. Every consideramanded, of those who sónk,, I will not say count of the proceedings at yesterday's meel

moment. And we shall expect that report to ba severely practical, devoid of bigh-falutin among the good livers" In Canton last year. tiod would be given to their needs and to their highly-traine, Continental term im the datary Bud must realise by this theories, and Impossible engineering pro One item will excite some curiosity and that their ability to pay the heavy fees which boars." We have quoted a little more than was,

time that the representatives of the 'public

blems.

The Committee should certainly be in the trade in needles. These appear as 30. are demanded by the Education Depart secessary at thingstage to discover the views of their manifest duly had they bowed to the will parmit the retention of Pokfulam reservoir, would have been guilly of a gross derafiction sufficiently qualified to produce a scheme which many mille and it is recorded that durment. Instead of that, their circumstances of Mr. Addio, but it is right here when he suggestion that the discussion on the possible Ing the third quarter of 1906, 261 mille are entirely ignored and the Department casts discredit on the system which attracts contamination of the Colony's water supply West Point, and, at the same time be so in so that it may serve the needs of the Peak and satisfied, the people of Kwangtung. In proceeds to inue its edicts and orders youths between the ages of 15 and is to the should be held in private. We can qulie under-expensive that it will not constitute anolber 1907 the housewives absorbed geo mille in sublime contempt of the very people counting house and the comme cist office that

stand the feeling of the official element that the drain on the fluances of the Colony. And in 1908, 10 popular had the trade who are most deserving of sympathy. We ore of the main principles to be drilled into the the community should go be unpocessarily we join issue. It is generally admitted that mata facts should be kept secret in order that become that the dealers in needles had hear much about the University scheme, budding youth is the sense of discipline, order alarmed and excited, but when all is said and Increased there importations to 6,200 which is to enhance the prestige of Hong and exactitude. Not one of these three de done it is hetter to face the dangers we know 'mille. But even that did not satisfy the kong in China. We see His Excellency thesiderata is to be gained at any universithas to c...jice up spectres of the imagination needleworkers in the quarter under review Governor putting his heart and soul into the ty that we ever heard of in the United And that is what would have happened bad-quake and from all accounts the people of the Last week Shanghai was visited by an earth. last year for the import table jumped to project, and devoting time and labour to the Kingdom; and, indeed, we might go farther and the members of the Board adhered to the modal Settlement bare not yet recovered from 19,010, mille. At that rate there should be furtherance of the scheme, so that the say that voless a student is in training for a original proposition to keep the knowledge the waled experience. We had always been a needle for every man woman and child la University may be an accomplished fact be develop the direct antitheses of these objects falam reservoirs from the ears of those most of the earth on in the waters under the earth distinct profession be is extremely liable to of what was happening at the Tytam and Pok- under the impression that nothing on the face the province and two for the baby. There is fore the term of his office in this Colony has We will grant that the years betweṛ '13 and An Increasing demand for paper, but what expired. And yet, with all this enthusiasm 20 are extremely impressionable: -h, that, a full and free exposition of the facts, and a vast

concerned. No harm has been done by the could shock the worthy residents of Shanghai. Bort of paper we are, not told. The figures in the cause of education, we find the Direc youth during those yours is allowed to lead a smount of uneasy surmise and speculation bas

We had been led to believe that they were case bardoned against surprises, but if all stories be which stood at 12,401 in 1907 rose to 31,576 tor of Education, supported by His Excellency free and easy life, free to suit his own can- been dissipated. We know now what we have frue there must bave been a sort of harlequl last year. One of the most promising signs the Governor, raising the fees payable at venience and his own humours, to work to face; we can judge for ourselves what step: zade in most of the streets, in the places of of good: season that could possibly be the District Schools to such a pitch that the split moves him, and to zegard attendance should be taken to protect the Colony from the entertainment, and in private dwellings when afforded is the small importation of rice and many unfortunate child will have compounded by long and frequent vacations

at lectures as necessary evils whose effacts are dissemination of disease; and we shall support the earthquake made its presence fail. A vasily paddy,, Not for several years has the im to be removed from the school-register. The what sort of character is.be likely to turn out

every scheme which has for its object the paris entertaining account of the episode, written ap- port of the main constituent of the people's University is a great and noble idea, but the when he bas scraped through his finals and

fication of the water supply and the safeguard.parently in all seriousness, appears in one of the ing of the public health. In this instance we Shanghai papers. It is quite clear that the aein 1986, 74.58á piculs were lunded between be still higher in the eyes of the Government, ant with medical,

of Shrogba ware thoroughly on their life's work sauction be obtained, so that no time need be would out-Frisco San Francisco and the July and September, and 243,669 piculs According to the amended rates of fees because they have entered on tho dents slightest difficulty, nor need any outsider's respived that in the corresponding period in 1907, last which are to come into force immediately the moment they take up the particular studies lost in coming to hand-grips with what is ob- fortunate scribs who went round interviewing year all that was required or at least all that after the New Year Holidays all scholars och wilt qualify them for admission to their viously preventible sources of possible the victims of the seismic disturbance--for all was landed only amounted to a trifle over joining the new classes will pay from $310 54 by the humanities bar also a deficite object in

professions, while the arts man who sticke contamination of the water supply. The these synonyms for no earthquake are employi question, as most readers are aware, prose 7,000 louls. The sweet tooth is gathering a month. That may seen an insignificant view. But what sort of training would Mr.

ed by the Shapghailanders-caught the nervous force in the southern capital, the import of amount and probably it is to the majority of Addis suggest for the fature banker or rather

out of a communication from Colonel Bedford, and hypocondriacal just as they were emerging P.M.O. of the Forces, suggesting that the con: from that dull stopor which we understand white sugar rising from 50,435 picule in 1968 those who take the trouble to read this article, bank clerk for bankers and bank managers ditions.prevailing at the nullab in the vicinity follows the usual tremors. And they were all to 80,461 last year. As for the exports of but reduced to English money it representa are not being sought for to say exceptional of Mount Austin, which flows into the Pokfu willing to be interviewed and to dilate at Chinese produce from Canton it can be well very considerable inroad in a working man's odacation?-well and good, Tosy might be

ex ent. He would give them

cial lam reservoir, constituted commercial

grave menace in on the state of their feelings, and to describe the health of the community. understood that no great effort is made to wages, and where there is a family of three

Ho declared what they the better for a few lecfures op political bulid up an export trade in native oplum. In or four all of school age the burden on a

that the authorities at Mount Austin had in. | they saw, and or what they thought ecotomy and a short sketch of the Anancial rojo formed bim that "it is a common occurrence

magnify their ex- 1907, somebody seems to have inaugurated poor household becomes practically impossi- which overwhelmed France in the sighteenth for coolies to wash in the stream and to use

periences until they were in a fair way to be an export business which amounted to 6 ble to bear. Not only that, but consider the century and resulted in the King and bit Opeen the banks as latrine." that was a clear-cut the event of the century. Many of them da come convinced that they had been through picuts of the native product, but next year sort of education which is given for the outlay. Marie Antoinette losing their heads might not the trade was dead and it was not revived in required by the Government. Most of the come amiss. They might also assimilate, a

clared that the rumbling and shaking, and ant because not one is in

of the johabitants 1909. One of the really flourishing industries teachers are non-Britishers, who have but modicom of bistorical lose and perhaps a of Hongkong bave ocasion to observe the of the great earthquake of 1847-or at least it seems to be that which deals with the slight experience of the world to draw upon upon of patural philosophy would not be out habits of the cools at the bullah in question, must have been as bad, judging from what they

of place-it would come in very handy

had read of that ancient and historical occur 501 pieces were exported from Canton last work, and we cannot suppose that the few the study of mathematics would he pursued to esis, bejoy well gail to do so, and the possi- preusloalst writing declareds "We have known

Department is looking after their inter rence. One editorial writer in an agony of im year.as compared with 319,813 in the pre- English masters who look after the district the sth degree and embryo bankers would be bility of obnoxious practices being per

of the effects which earthquake phenomens One is inclined to wonder what schools are very much in evidence in the steeped in calculations until they discovered the mitted within the Peak Reservation Aren

bave on buman nature, but that is a very differ. becomes of all these invaluable accessories lower classes except on those important oc-fourth dimension. But what good would all would never cross their minds. The Medical

ant thing from knowing them. We have had to the born coquette, and whether they dis-casions when a member of the Education the do? Tale grand university course would Officer of Health unreservedly admitted that light shocks before in the Settlement, but so far appear na mysteriously as pins and needles, Department in on his rounds.

a race produce certainly

of immaculately there ware dangers incident to the use of the as our own exparienca goas we have never There is not much trade in feathers, only education bad as it may be is worth for a lost peany in the ledger bat who would

groomed aristocrats, who might deign 10 search Pokfulam reservoir, but it is only fair to that before known mothers to snatch their children officer to add that he has in past years called the out of warm beds and rush with them into the 40 picule being sent abroad last year, so that having, if nothing else can be obtained, but bo'more

attention of the Government to the dangers re ore apt to bribe some understrapper to de the fulminations of bird-fancier against if it can only be had by the payment of ex-

outer air in the midst of winter. We have never it for them, but for the life of us we cannot see saitant from the very considerable coolie traffic before, seen such hurried break-ups of bridge those who exterminate a species in order to orbitant fees then it should be withdrawn how it would tend to improve the acquired and of. through the valley. And sofaran we can make out partier, never before known grows men adoro a lady's headgear will not apply to altogether. The farce of establishing the ten prechcious fanacial instinct which

1 comes to

the Government have done nothing to abate the to complain of the peculiar oauses which South China. There has been a slump in District Schools should be abolished, and lo No doubt there are clerar and painstaking means cheerful rerding, but what we appreciate soon how mes tor pals and cold who a thnes who are, as it were, bred to the business.

evil. The minute writica by the M.O.H.is by

by na the vibration of the earth produces nor brasc buttons-if you are interested their place we should have a number of young men who leave coliage with babits and in the subject-but the export trade academies for the sons of noblemen characteristics so unaffected by the conditions couched There are grounds for alarm that and radiance of youth. All bis happened, and is the straight-forward language to which it is moment before were laughing in the warmth io buman hair is going strong, The and gentlemen. Twenty, OVED thirty under which they have lived during their most typhoid or cholera might be spread throughout good deal more, on Saturday night." These gentleman who sells the pills and lotions years ago, the school children in the Impressionable years that they are ready to the Colony as the result of people at the Peak is something very terible in that experience, and black draughts and patent Dot United Kingdom were belog educated take their seat on an office stool and begin and at West Polat using this Pokfulam supply but we think the writer made a huge mistake trums generally did do not an well in the and soundly educated on a scale of fees learning the rudiments of what is to be their A person who might have had typhoid fever lu emphasising the fact that it all happened on Autumn of last year as he could have wished, which seldom cost as much as the smallest life's work at a moment's notice. There may years ago might unconsciously be the medium a Saturday night. If the earthquake and tra for the total value of his medicines was only silver coin in the British currency, To-day to meet them-the crop would be exceedingly say "ubconsciuulp" we mana unconscious of that lo order ant to put ourselves at the mercy be such young as we say, but we should like of starting av epidemic in Hongkong. When we valled along to Hongkong we ate quite sure thing over 17,000, which is not so bad in Scotland it is positively

bl Addiy, glut in the however, admits that there are limitations to

responsibility as a cil zien when responding of the Philistines, it would have been referred emissarion were merely the spratu in the busin after all. But when we consider the partiality market through the mistaken kindness of usefulness of universities. As he said himself Bract violation of the shuitary regulations, Nobody would have dragged in the entirely of the ordinary Chlosman for Dauseous Andrew Carnegie. The teachers are select "I admit that if the art of commerce consista When it is stated that h. If a dozen European unnecessary fact that it occurred at 10.5s ou decoctions of the rankest herb discoverable, ed from the cream of the universities and an onderge extent it does, in making prompt residences and the Dairy Farm buildings are Saturday night. But being truthful sod coura and his satisfaction in swallowing a mixture even the smallest schoolmistress is an artist and approximately accurate decisions, then the supplied with water either befare altrations or

geous people in Shanghai the most precise universition,

as at she has acquired. Hers in Hongkong, The undergraduate's day is mapped out for

mercantile training. enough to indicate that the dunges hinted at sceptical. Now let tis see how the shock

by the M.O.H. are not at all visionary. Pro- we not only seek to discourage cle- him by his fator, liule room is left for poubt is mination of the water, but it is perfectly clear order to express their terror. One gentleman is outside this Colony, how are the 'colat

Affected some of those who appear to have cantions are taken to guard against the conta mentary education but

been granted the power of vivid description in an attempt is fuitlative; and the general tendency no actually being made to close the school to foster s state of mastal equipoise which is that these precautions are absolutely inade who was at the thostro said that "during the muggled into Hongkong? It is obvious room door in the face of those seeking for assalted to the prompt and ledependent judg. quite to meet the objections of Colonel play he had been leaning against a pillar in they do not walk ashore of their own voll knowledge. For what reason? In it

mest required in mercantile affairs. But that Bedford. And what are we to think of this sen- the corridor unaing beside the dress-circletion and the only conciosion is that the to be expected that when the Government have something to learn from commerce as auty shows-does it not?-baf the univemities

lence: The bacteriological reports concern. when it suddenly got up and his bim. Thep it members of the gang have some under- claps on an additional dollar or two on the well as commerce from the poiversities, and

ing the parity of our water supplies, which started to move around and becoming seasick grou school fees that the revenue of the Colony that more intimate relations between them cient timely warning of such contamina are received monthly, would not give naffi-

ground railway by which they can communicate he beat a basly retreat." We call that a suc with the local agents. Now, if the comutar will materially benefit? Will the education would react to the advantage of both. What a

cinct and masterly account of what happened, feiters are located let us say at Canton or tion as is suggested here, as the presence Other people bave been known to picture Kongmoon or at any of the ports on the Was provided be of a higher standard, or the bann to the nating it would be if business of the specific organisme would not be the symptoms in somewhat different language River and they are able successfully to sluda equipment of the schools more complete affairs were conducted with more of the buslytic detected until some at least of the parsons but the sea-sickness is the crowning touch In fine, what system of argument can be a reflective power of the universities, and if using this water bad becomis infected? Are which gives verisimilitude to the whole, · An

the vigilance of the police, what difficulty adduced in defence of this inexplicable the prompt and practical methods of business"

is there for the dealers in contraband. university affairs were conducted with more of wato Ji On a fance and wait for other gentleman, who was in his own room at opium and native liquor to employ the same order, which is aimed at those in the Colony That Is all very fine and large, but it amounts move? Not yet. Now that we are acquainted standing with his back to the fireplace when We take it that the tayanus or excise officers for something to torn up before we make a 10.52 on Saturday night, told bow he was safe channel of legress into Hongkong? who are least able to defy oppressive mea to nothing more than a series of platitudes with the dangers that threaten as it is the duty he heard a sound like a heavy gust of wind." appointed by the Government to prevent the sures? Little wonder, we say, that His Coesider, for instance, how amusing a flean of every ratepayar to and that the Sanitary The bed shook, the cartelas dapped, a picture illegal importation of dutiable goods do not Majesty the King has exercised his veto with cial transaction would become if the ideas pro- Departmeal and the Government are compelled swung north east by south-wast and back again, confine their attention solely to the discovery respect to the Ordinance, which proposed pounded by Mr. Addis came into practical to adopt the mast vigorous measures to protect the water in the ewer splashed, the mice of tilicit opiam or the landing of smuggled

to relieve the Governor-in-Council of cer- counted or a draft honoured or anything that by foul fith diseases

effect. A marchant might want a bill dig the Colony from all possible chance of attack chirped, the bedstead rattled, as nopaid liquors. If they are clever enough to outwit tale duties.". However little our faith in that occurs in the daily round of banking life. Our abandoning Pokfulam reservoir, but sorely it is Minu" He thought there had been an

Dr. Clark spoke of bill foll' out, of drawer, and the cat cried the contrabandists, surely bay coght to be body known as the Governor-in-Council may worthy banker instead of giving a abort, snap possible to devise means whereby the bealth of explosion so he remained steadfastly. In the

able to lay by the heels those who are sigUEN. be, we believe it to be better than the voice. PF GUEWAT, Yea or nay, musi needs

single individual acting on the advice of aed while he enters the reflective stage and venisolong may be conserved without Incos. same position, with his back to the fireplace base money to the Oslosy Tas very fact of the children's BIRTHRIGHT. bureaucrat whose opinions on the subject and mixes bath up in a tasteful hotch potch pegister who was worthy of the same would there is on jakery-pakery. or banky-panky arouse the auspicions of the searchers and they pursues his way through the analytic course supply is derived from this source. Any to 50 p.m. by, my witch," he added so that by travellers arriving in the Oplosy should the residents whose only water sud waited for developments. This occurred at any considerable sum in dollar beleg carried upon which his counsels are tendered are (18th January)

often based upon an insufficiency of know

and faslly returns to earth to Sad his custom bare a plan ready in a couple of days to about the narrative: Then he proceeded: should be required to work hand in glove with Id no Department of the Goverment ser ledge and a disregard for the interests of absurd. Possibly Mr. Addi. har's cut had dried pest and sanitary faddist in the Colony. That have bean badly hung) commenced swinging for the circulation of bad money. It shopla er gone. Of course the idea as it stands is meet the objections of every medical ex-Ten minutes later the same picture" (it must the police in the detection of those responsibla vica is it more.difficult to understand the those who most need protecting,

scheme which he would apply for the benefit in what we pay our engineers for we are as before but I felt no tremor principics which guide the administration

this time, Am of pniversity graduates who desired to become delighted when they plan a thoroughfare and informed that this is the heaviest shock fate in

not be forgotten that the people who are most. than in that governed by the Director of

THE IMPRESSION ABLE..AGK-

Rebla to be hocussed by the geourally astpla book clerks. But bas Mr. Addis thought what academise a roadway, and train a nullah, Shanghai since 1849" Of course it Education. The object of the Department

decently-aducated university man of 22 oz 2 but we expect something more. We expect

WAN, but OF BANK CLBRES,

scamps employed in the game of swindling the why did he not predoca his loforment who, we public are the very people who are usually would seem to be the discouragement of the

would expect in the way of salary-even al reasonable degres of originality and a sugges feel certain, in a relative of that fine old Eng. fast able to lose avant les cast piece. And elementary schools, by the imposition of fees

though he did not know the first elements of prace slop of ability suficient to arcoms simple fish gentleman known as the Oldent Inhabitant? it is notorious that there is not stranger which are absolutely prohibitory la the case of the educational training requisite for a come Office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Pokfulam reservoir. Colonel Bedford presented were actually some police sergeants is bad

Some remarkable statements on the subject tical braking? Would Mr. Addis fill the Head problem such as that presented in the case of When the earthquake struck Shanghai there who lands on the shor of Hongkong h of poor children. It is not so very long ago mercial career were mado by the foint manager Corporation with members of the bon ton whoso | his case for raform vary, strongly whìn bị o'clock f'Such an accident could never hava oc« ) willing possEYNOTH

is not victimised sometimes to the extent of since we called attention to the jealous of the London branch of the Hongkong and chief abilities would lie in the direction of minded the Board there was a barracks

on Saturday night es ten minutes to eleven several dollars. In the latter care the wa movement organised against tise grant-in-ald | Shanghal Banking Corporation at a recent staff | starch, sód linen? Theo-we should have the containing 400 men, married. famille, i write of the members of the police force in

of sarcurred in Hongkong, because it is the boast and and bear the ignominyo

spori defrauded by may frik schools of the Colony and now it is our paid.dianer bald in the metropolis, Mr G. §.'Addis, | time of our lives; Mr. Addis speaks about the wants, coolieri hanka of tbfn nullah, Wa | Colony that they are always on duty-espacial. polous Chinese idealers: but they do not,

etc. who were practically ful daty to animadvert on the latest lasidi- the speaker, was addressing the

thly ous attempt to withhold the very rudiments 1198 performance al bis duty ofhering in 2 drudgery of burlbert, What drudgery dois te ['residing in ramarks about the opportunities ly on Saturday nights, The Art sergeant Hongkova is little better than a'des of thieves

the expect a man well past ble anjority would con- | pasa

forget to spread, the nawe fur and: wide that toast of "The Bank when he gave altarance at to do? He want on in his spaach to say affordid for the breading of acepheles, and tackled by the reporter must have produced his And so Hongkong's name and reputation are of education from those most in poed of to sentiments which we feel sure will certainly Believe me, the nature of drudgery is every come to his remedy for the pressat state of notebook, frowoad severely on the newspapat blackened in the eyes of the foreigner and the helping hand to raise them above the connot be homologated by the vast majority of where pretty much the same, and averywbare things. He put his idea in the following termes man, coughed three times and started oracular casual visitor. We had at-drn ditions under which they have been reared. these brought ag to a busloase caraer, or avanit yields up hall its tedium to an intelligent at what I have brought forward No doubt the high officials of the Govern intended for the banking hours. Howe tempt to discover the meaning which noderlies noon is supported by the opinion of the Board, the shorthand writer pats it all lato the third

1'imagland. In this_after- | ¡y—* Your Washup, it was like this Boi

Case dealt with at the Crimins It means that the lower reaches of the Mount | parson, The sergeant on duty waid that his might be attributed to the ment, being in receipt of fat salaries which | are to accept Mr. Addie's, doctrine swary bank and explains it. Nor will it do to, justi

ta

that the epidemic of passing pr Instify the it la to ha, presumed; they do their best to i hopes to, reich the higher rungs of the ladder, led in it as if their success were in comsiquesgo | wielding, Sehs of the S Sat out of the watare | books "bagan to slida to and fro, while the Boxiaty of a certain clán of, Chinese, who wasa

clark, every assistant in a business house, whe old s system by the eminent men who were co

cad.

Aqativ polish should Aro, and living in a sphere far removed from must possess a university education similar to and not in spite of the defects of their sarly be more amply protected from traspass or con- tossed seaway No, it is

Colony, or that it should dark began to have like a ship la storm dormind 30 acquire a small fortune at the gre the everyday life of the Colony, biva little lihat,which is deemad essential for entrance to tradge, but of capacity. No onu doubts 1 în viaw of the present" limited. supeta 'of the Empire. It is an exhibition of than warba! | had to,uw se police had, bren on the track

i not a quotation f time to give to, the consideration of such a

I gulte agros ¿it is not a question of tamiosilon. This is, i know, serious matter, the wreck of the Royal George de the liberal professions. The idea is so movel

of of the Neve

Vear festivities. madan subject as the alementary aduca and even outre that it is discuit at once to that a School Board boy of eative wit and shrewd essential commodity Navartheless,

„givas, up, however, when it was -top of the humbler glasses, They are more } grasp Ita, significance: 111⁄2 order to get close pas of illa for the professor whosn learning | correct ones. The actual means manud ka for fornitors to sunoy him, boril at last ɓa recovère | can only trust that the sorts of the police:

prove more had a match lathe practical logical sequence; if the premises, adduced are that he thought his friends at the added show that concerned with their social duties and the care to the spaakar's, meaning we will, examina

are pulling the the gang since the

of last August. ofthe wall to do thea with those who, afterall, as so extemporaneous speach but care one dopbi thay glyes two men of aqwal ea city, parhaps eliminate the lower portion of the hearthquake Two Bergoints who had been criminals wha. lira byporing, in they his exact words, and la eridant this has sarved but to muddis his brains: Burcamay the consideration of the F.WI might ad from his surprise and said quite placidly WIt's be successful fej breakjeg op the band to the brakbone of Hongkong, Were it not fully thought-out homily for the beat of the advantage will with big whose faculties Ballab, by taking pipes through it from above, sound asloup Awoke to and their beds shaking, sophimicated and femorial Chiosed and that she for the fact that the Idea is too preposteross the stan, Mr. Addis was arguing that the have been the better trained for Hip threw or so as not to lose the water from the higher "Like the proverbial maidenɔaunt they got up | ries leaders will be, breprör ke book so that to be stioinly entertained, one would be problems: confronting the coming basket fogE QUIEN ZORES NË INO university will mei, mive Ponchary, and pai nd of the want item (79) nod

nature of

aware of the source whence the ready made article could be obtained red-hot from the dies. Wado not stop to inquire what led the

tokens, nor do we seek t informer to turn against those charged with mission of gooding Hoppkong with, wartblik v bis reward. But we should certainly any that

to know. the

ថ្ងៃផង who was so far in the counsels of the CIE to whom it was safe to sell over a hundred tral gang ade be deemed a trustworthy

orthy agaut imitation dollars must have af İsaat an inkling, coiners headquarters. These distributing if not complete inside information," of the

and probably the smallest share in the prodis, It is the prime movers, the men in the backe ground, whom we want to see in the dock. Where are they to be found?. Apparsotly not. ability of the local detective force--both Euro- pead and native--would be irretrievably skate lered. Then if the beadquarter of the coiners

reckoned at 98.946 Haikwan taèts, or some. I education is free throughout the Kingdom-small in the United Kingdom: Miths to asture's behest, but not acconsclops of his | to as the salemic disttebance of the 5th Instant.ness, who took the mujer ́ portion of the ritka

that would turn a lump of clay into a pillar in ber ability to impart the education that respect ap inadent constituted, offer in after inefficient äftration we think we have said') details had to be given in orderza convince she | in Hongkong, otherwise our bþigh estimate of the

of chrystallised jaundice, we are inclined to think that the makers of patent medicities are Josing their koxck of giving Jaha his money's worth, However, it is not for us to teach our grandmothers how to suck eggs so we will leave it at that. We have looked for the figures recording the importation of brandy and beer which if we remember rightly were declared by Mr. Murray Stewart to be the favourite liquors of the tippling Chinese but so far as we can make out there is no evidence that such unrighteous stuff caters the port of Canton at all. At least it does not appear to get past the Customs house Of course there is no knowing that it is not sent up country under the designation of aeroplanes or that wild favourite of the bucolic Chinese the gramaphone. But Cus. tom officer have other duties to attend to than the care of tinned music and at beer may be described as bottled music it is just possible that both go together and escape the eye of the vigilant tidewaiter.

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